Louis Vuitton. Resort 2024 - Milan

Straight from Nicolas Ghesquière's Pre-Fall 2023 showing in Seoul, South Korea.  He has returned to the epicenter of luxury fashion, to stage Louis Vuitton's Resort 2024 collection on the picturesque and historic island Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore.  Situated between Italy and the Swiss Alps.  And as noted with the Pre-Fall presentation, Ghesquière has spectacularly reinvigorated his futurism looks of an alternate timeline with elements of his beloved 1950s utopian concepts mixed with a darker, scifi look.   It does seem that he is merging the old with the new of a future that never existed, yet conceptualized with such a ferment passion by the Belgium designer.  One does have to admire Ghesquière's creative acuity for the famous French fashion house.

And it should be noted since his Seoul show, Ghesquière has entwined a deeper amourous feel to the Louis Vuitton looks, driving in more of a sexual imprint to his collections.   Revealing its enticing prurient flow, with his stripped down and bare looks.  Ghesquière's latest collection for Louis Vuitton has certainly raised the bar, as far as maintaining the off again and on again trend for 2023, that being the possibility of a epicurean revolution of sorts, in its similarity to the invention of the Pill and the revolutionary 1960s.  Are we in for a new era of the libidinous?

Hard to say.  But, our society at this current point in time is in a state of flux and turmoil and if one is to draw from the fictional prose of the past, where speculative authors from the 1950s onward were able to, although not with profound accuracy, did correctly assume that this future, which definitely did not represent a family value, middle class driven Utopia, predicted our current urbanity as a broken dystopia.  Maybe this is a good thing, as it does seem that nature and our human construct had indeed forced change upon us and we are resisting, afraid of moving into a newer world, clinging to the past of the last two decades.  Which has been at our detriment. 

Ghesquière's latest looks remind me of the stalwart Avant-garde designer Rick Owens witch like oracles, representing the intuitive power of the feminine.  The sensing and releasing of turmoil, while making offerings and accepting the Universal chaos.  Which is not to be feared, but rather to meditate upon its calamity.  

Beautifully textured and layered styles that of course match the Louis Vuitton luxury template, with ceremonial style headwear fusing an esoterica of 1920s Art Deco impression onto Ghesquière's futurist vision, gives the styles on show a unique perspective.

A stunning collection.

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(A.Glass 2023)